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AAArgghhh!!!

torstaina, kesäkuuta 03, 2004

Chocolate cookie crunch

I'm eating a chocolate egg. Not just a shallow Easter-bunny egg made with chocolate, but an egg that has been emptied by putting a tiny hole in it and then washed carefully and finally filled with delicious nougat. By now you probably notice my stupendous obsession with candy, pastry, ice cream and anything that involves sugar. I would actually also include anything that has salt in it, except not just food that has salt in it. I guess what I'm trying to say is I love snacks, any form of it!...Anyhoe, these eggs are a widely known phenomenon in my beloved country Finland. They are called Mignon eggs. I just really had the need to share this information with anyone who didn't know this. Now you know.
This desire to know all kinds of detailed information about how to make snacks or food in general has probably something to do with me wanting to name my offspring with food or spice names (please don't judge me quite yet) like: paprika (my favorite to this day), pepper, kaneli (cinnamon in finnish) and olive. So when I found out that Mrs. Chris Martin had named her daughter Apple I was furious. It just wasn't fare.

1. I didn't know anyone else who desired to name their children in honor of a grocery item. Which made me feel betrayed.
2. I was more than upset that I just simply hadn't thought of that specific name before and I thought it was genius. Which made me green-eyed and disappointed of my self.

So this should explain why I anxiously named myself Apple when I started on my profile. I felt it was the perfectly right thing to do in this situation. And I still feel so. Maybe after time passes I may have gotten over it. But now it feels so damn good.

My picture also portrays one of my favorite things in life: food stores. I could spend hours in a food store and I do. This particular store was my neighborhood store for about four years. I loved it. Still do. It was the perfect store. They had everything I could think of and more. It wasn't big, it was the perfect size, maybe even on the small side one could think. But that's how I like it. It had charm. Last time I was in this store was probably a year and three moths ago. I wish I could remember it but I don't. And my intention was to go to this place last April when I visited Helsinki( location of the store) but because of unusual incidents I never got there. But on my way to the airport I snapped this picture from the car and there it is. The picture of my favorite store (with an apple on the side, which I haven't yet decided if it's a good thing or bad considering this whole thing with apples that I have going on).